Pacific Island Sweatshops

Updated April 17, 1998 12:07 a.m. ET

It is apparent from your March 31 editorial "Senate Inquisition " that you did not do your homework on the current situation in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). You say that I am "leading the charge against markets and local control," and that as chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, I held a hearing on the Northern Marianas to "make the case for why federal immigration and minimum wage laws should be forced on CNMI."